Information Service of FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED ILLEGAL
DECISION Federal Government expressed deep concern due to a recent decision made by the Municipality Court in Decane to cancel the decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia brought in 1997 by which a part of the land – which had been nationalised in the past – was to be returned to the Decane Monastery in Kosovo. Federal Government stated that the decision of the Municipal Court was “illegal” and that it represented a “repressive measure towards the remaining Serbs in Kosovo and Metochia and towards their property and shrines”, the Federal Secretariat for Informing stated. The Government also stated that the decision of the Municipal Court in Decane was “directly opposite to the Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council” and expressed deep concern for the fact that UNMIK did not react to that “illegal act that can produce long-term material and political consequences for finding the solution to the current situation in Kosovo and Metochia”. By the decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia of 1997 two tracts of land of 23.45 ha nationalised in 1946 (the total amount of nationalised land was 800 ha) were to be returned to the Monastery of Visoki Decani. |
